Georgina Maynard has been fortunate enough to spend most her life involved in the world of antiques and the arts. She has run a successful antiques business and worked as a journalist on many of the more prestigious magazines for some thirty-five years she took a degree in Fine Art with the University of Plymouth in the UK.

Since 2000 she has worked as a professional artist. Her work has been used from record covers to greeting cards. With portrait commissions for several well-known personalities. Her animal paintings are much in demand and she has exhibited at the famous Mall Galleries in London.

Her lecturing and workshop experience runs from Art and Antique lectures in Brussels to the American Women’s Club and several tours with Swan Hellenic on their boutique cruise ship Minerva, and more recently on Queen Mary 2, lecturing and running art workshops.

She moved to South West France two years ago and still has family and property in the UK.
She speak French, has a clean driving license and is in good health and fully vaccinated.
She has recently published her first novel, a thriller ‘I will keep her’ available on Amazon.



Below is a selection of her art.

As a professional artist I am experienced in most mediums and can offer the traveller a wide range of useful tips, techniques, ideas and reference material for beginners or more advanced artists.
I can also provide other more ‘craft’ orientated opportunities. These include painting and drawing on the Ipad, making your own sketchbooks, techniques in stencilling and other paint finishes.

My lecturing and talks experience covers both Art History and Antiques, both the buying and selling experience and restoration. I have a wealth of amusing and instructive talks using either power-point or video.

I am extremely flexible and tend to make my talks specific to the places being visited and the profile of my audience.
I am also happy to guide groups round museums and art galleries that the ship is visiting.

Testimonials from recent voyages.
On behalf of all of us on board and at Cunard thank you so much for all you have done in making the art classes such a success - Captain Andrew Hall.
Heartfelt thanks for being such an extra special part of my World Cruise.
Life can bring us moments of light and times of great darkness. Thank you for being a moment of light every sea day with your love of art and delight with our efforts.

I have recently returned from the Queen Mary 2 world voyage where I was artist in residence and ran the art workshops for the whole 103 days trip.
Previously I worked as a lecturer and ran workshops on the Swan Hellenic ship Minerva.
I am booked again on QM2 in November for the transatlantic trip.